Disk Utility Crashes when selecting FW disk

[marz]

Help

I'm trying to get organized for the new year, and want to repartition my firewire hdd, so I've backed up my data, erased the firewire drive in Disk Utility and when I try to select the disk to repartition it, Disk Utility crashes. I've ejected the drive, rebooted reconnected the drive, but everytime I launch DU and select the drive DU dies.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[marz]

Well, I opted to try and partition the drive with my PC, and created a Primary partition, then plugged it back into my iBook and got the message asking me to initialize it, said OK to initialize it and am now able to use Disk Utility without it crashing.